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Next former congressman barney frank recounts his life and political career. This is 50 minutes. Thank you. Welcome, barney frank. [laughter] i was hoping that you could say a little bit about the story that you tried to tell in this book. [applause] it is there were two teams. A normal teenager in terms of my interest. 1954. Stand up. Smearing democrats. Fascinating. Something about racism dash chicago. And i wish i was. I watched. They can do that. At the same time i knew this was a terrible conflict. An executive order. Automatically disqualified. We were bad people, evil. And so i began to say, g, influential government and society. Ive never we will be because i am gay. By the time i retired there was this disparagement. 2012 when jan and i had married. Samesex marriage that turns out the the chair of the community of the financial services. As i got to be more influential in government government to be less influential in society. What i want i want to crusade for now is how peop ....
united states come out, he had a press conference, he scolded the republicans. it s interesting. there s an item in the washington post that says that apparently yesterday they were this close. boehner had in the room reid and he also had mcconnell and they all came together and they said ok, the framework of the boehner deal, a two-step deal, we all agree to. however, they went up and they talked to the president of the united states and they said wait a minute, this won t get me through election. no, absolutely not. i need a long term thing, buddy. i reject. senator harry reid has reportedly come up with his own plan. let s break it down for you. this is all difficult to try to digest all these different plans that have been going around the last couple of weeks. it would raise the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion through 2013 which would cover president obama and the re-election bid. $2.7 billion in spending cuts but there would be no touching entitlement reform and ....
apparently yesterday they were this close. boehner had in the room reid and he also had mcconnell and they all came together and they said ok, the framework of the boehner deal, a two-step deal, we all agree to. however, they went up and they talked to the president of the united states and they said wait a minute, this won t get me through election. no, absolutely not. i need a long term thing, buddy. i reject. senator harry reid has reportedly come up with his own plan. let s break it down for you. this is all difficult to try to digest all these different plans that have been going around the last couple of weeks. it would raise the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion through 2013 which would cover president obama and the re-election bid. $2.7 billion in spending cuts but there would be no touching entitlement reform and no here s the important thing from the democrats point of view, no tax hikes as well. that s the big sacrifice? one of their big cuts is a trillion ....
seoul, south korea for the g-20 summits and japan and another economic summit. white the president jets to a a asia, republicans are flying high and slamming his policies. there seems to be some denial on the part of the president and other democrat leaders the message that was sent by the american people. absolutely it s about president obama s policies. the president signals he s ready for compromise. he ll meet with gop leaders on november 18th and promises to keep the focus on what he says voters want, jobs, jobs, jobs. i am open to any idea, any proposal, any way we can get the economy growing faster so that people who need work can find it faster. there we have it right, the man on the job at the white house for us. mike, explain what we hear about this new report. reporter: there s some positive news here. the president pointed out today it s the tenth straight month of private sector growth. from a political standpoint the unemployment rate is still ....